Generic Company Place Holder PKZIP

The program stacks up well against Winzip in its ability to
compress and e-mail files in a couple of clicks and integrate with
third-party antivirus scanners. In addition, PKZip can create and
extract files from many of the most common archive types. The
program also offers 128-, 192-, and 256-bit AES encryption to keep
your archives private from all but the most determined snoops, and
lets you digitally sign them to certify that they are actually from
you.

On the down side, it lacks Winzip's backup capabilities and it
can't create self-extracting archives.

--Scott Spanbauer

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